AI won’t save advertising, says Digitas’ Amy Lanzi
…You are a data person, you’ve always been a data person. I’m really curious about that. The idea that the marketing function is now so directly tied to business results…
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How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
…They made their own search engine worse. In the DOJ case last year, we saw that in 2019, they deliberately worsened the search engine so that you would have to search more…
The game that makes me actually want to exercise
…Highly recommend it if you’re into fantasy / anime. * I recently discovered a new podcast called Simple and Clean, which dives deep into the Kingdom Hearts games. It has become my go…
The future of border security isn’t at the border at all
…cross-lingual searches across more than 200 languages, allowing users to enter terms in English and return foreign language results.” Perhaps most importantly, the platform “allows for networks discovery with social media…
The DoorDash problem and the great AI browser fight
…He said that the agentic web reminded him of the early days of search engines as “sources of discovery for commerce,” adding, “you had to kind of figure out the right way…
Who really runs OpenAI now?
…They have a new person in charge. They’re being shuffled between different teams. Their teams are headed by one person and then their boss’s boss is someone else, which probably…
Can Puck reinvent news for the influencer age?
Today, I’m talking with Sarah Personette, CEO of Puck, which is a fancy new media company that’s been around for just about five years now. Puck hires big stars and…
How to find the best deals during Amazon’s Prime Day sale
…Below, we’ve spilled a few of our best deal-hunting tips, from how to use automated price trackers to the different ways you can set up your own personalized deal alerts…
The farce of Musk v. Altman
…Both Elon Musk and Sam Altman are big personalities, and people have a lot of feelings about both of them and the AI industry. And in the end… nothing happened! The jury…
What Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is really about
…I personally use AI all the time, obviously in my personal life to test things out, see what it can do. Month to month, I see how it’s improved, at least…